Writer and photographer Monica Connell was interviewed by Karen McMahon of Mijas International TV on her book Against a Peacock Sky and her other work. This interview was broadcasted on October 6th, 2014. You can see the video here.

‘I spent a good part of the summer reminiscing about my time in Nepal for the Eland Newsletter.’ ‘How did you do it?’ is a question I’m often asked by people who read Against a Peacock Sky, my account of two years in a remote…

As a child, growing up in Belfast in the 1950’s, Monica Connell spent the summer holidays in Donegal. In the 1990’s, by now an anthropologist and author, she returned to Donegal with her husband. Gathering Carrageen is the story of that return: the harsh beauty…